Google News Scraper: Headlines & Publishers ($2/1K)

Google News results by keyword: headline, article URL, publisher, description, and publish time. For PR teams, analysts, and AI builders who do brand monitoring and track news coverage.

Last verified working: 2026-10-31 (automatic live test run passed).

• Price: $2.00 per 1,000 news articles. No subscription; you pay only for news articles saved. Try it on Apify's free plan (up to 20 news articles per run).
• Per search query: 10 to 16 articles on page 1 in our tests.
• Export: JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, or the API. Works with Make, Zapier, n8n, and AI agents (MCP).

A preview of real rows (title, source, publishedDateApprox):

title	source	publishedDateApprox
Costco Is Practically Giving Away These Classic…	Gear Patrol	2026-10-27
adidas Originals Unveils the ADAPTIK ONE Carabi…	Hypebeast	2026-10-28
‘You’re Forcing It Now,’ ‘This Is Getting Corny…	Yahoo Sports	2026-10-26

Every run tells you plainly what worked and what did not: no silent empty runs.

What can Google News Scraper do?

• Brand monitoring: run your brand name every few hours and alert on new articles.
• Competitor news: track coverage of competitors with source and publishedDateApprox.
• AI and RAG feeds: send fresh article URLs to a summarizer or vector store.

Ready-made setups

Copy one into the input's JSON tab and click Start. To repeat it, save it as a task and add a schedule (Console > Tasks > Schedule, for example every day at 8:00).

Monitor news about a brand. Run every few hours and alert on new articles.

{"queries": ["Tesla"], "pages": 1, "maxResults": 20}

Track competitor news. One run covers several companies; filter by query.

{"queries": ["Nike", "Adidas", "Puma"], "pages": 1, "maxResults": 20}

What data does Google News Scraper extract?

Field	What it is	Example
query	The search term that produced this row.	adidas
type	news, additional, or error.	news
position	1-based rank in this Actor's list.	1
page	Google News page number.	1
title	Article headline.	Costco Is Practically Giving Away These Classic-Looking Adidas Sneake…
url	Article URL.	https://www.gearpatrol.com/deals/costco-adidas-breaknet-3/
description	Short excerpt from the article.	Among Costco's newest products is an Adidas sneaker with a classic, S…
source	Publisher name.	Gear Patrol
published	Publish time as Google News shows it, for example 2 days ago.	20 hours ago
publishedDateApprox	Date computed from the relative publish time on the day of the run (YYYY-MM-DD). Exact for hours and days; approximate for weeks and months.	2026-10-27
rankOverall	Rank among mixed listings on the page.	1

Examples come from a real run. Every row has every field; a value the page did not show is null, never guessed.

How to use Google News Scraper

1. Click Try for free (or Start) on this page.
2. Enter one search query per line in the first field. The form is prefilled with a working example.
3. Optional: set Max results and the other options.
4. Click Start. Open the Output tab, or export JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Example input

{
  "queries": [
    "adidas"
  ],
  "pages": 1,
  "maxResults": 20
}

Example output

One real row from a run on 28 October 2026 (long values shortened here):

{
  "query": "adidas",
  "type": "news",
  "position": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "title": "Costco Is Practically Giving Away These Classic-Looking Adidas Sneakers",
  "url": "https://www.gearpatrol.com/deals/costco-adidas-breaknet-3/",
  "description": "Among Costco's newest products is an Adidas sneaker with a classic, Samba-style look for an unbelievably low price.",
  "source": "Gear Patrol",
  "published": "20 hours ago",
  "publishedDateApprox": "2026-10-27",
  "rankOverall": 1
}

How much does Google News Scraper cost?

Pay per result: $2.00 per 1,000 news articles, plus $0.001 per run start. No subscription.

Event	When	Price
Actor start	Once per run (per GB of memory; the default 256 MB counts as one)	$0.001
News article	Each news article saved to the dataset	$0.002

Example	Rows	Cost
10 articles	10	$0.001 + $0.02 = $0.021
100 articles	100	$0.001 + $0.20 = $0.201
1,000 articles	1,000	$0.001 + $2.00 = $2.001

• Retries after a bot check or a temporary error cost you nothing. You pay only for rows saved.
• An input that fails after all retries saves one error row so you can see what failed and why. It counts as one row charge until 15 November 2026; from then on error rows are free.
• On Apify's free plan a run stops at 20 rows. Any paid Apify plan removes this limit.
• Set Max total charge per run in the run options. The Actor stops cleanly at that limit and keeps every row saved so far.

What you can count on

• Same columns on every row. Missing values are null, so spreadsheets and databases never break.
• No silent failures. An input that fails gets an error row with errorCode and a plain-language errorMessage. The other inputs keep running.
• A clear run summary. The run status says how many results were saved, how many inputs failed, and why. The same numbers are saved as the RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store, for automations.
• Automatic retries. Bot checks and temporary errors are retried with a fresh request before an input counts as failed.
• Limits respected. Max results and your spending limit stop the run cleanly.

Google News Scraper API for code, automations, and AI agents

API (returns the rows when the run finishes):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plumblinedata~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["adidas"], "pages": 1, "maxResults": 20}'

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("plumblinedata/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={"queries": ["adidas"], "pages": 1, "maxResults": 20})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('plumblinedata/google-news-scraper').call({"queries": ["adidas"], "pages": 1, "maxResults": 20});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

No-code: connect the Actor in Make, Zapier, n8n, or Google Sheets through Apify's integrations, or add a webhook to get notified when a run finishes.

AI agents (MCP): add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plumblinedata/google-news-scraper to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client. The agent can call this Actor as a tool with the same input as above.

Limitations

• Article text is not included; open url for the full article.
• publishedDateApprox is computed from "2 days ago" style text, so weeks and months are approximate.

FAQ

Can I get news for another country?

Yes. Set Location and Interface language.

How do I scrape Google News articles by keyword?

Put your keywords in Search queries (queries) and run. Each article becomes a row with headline, URL, publisher, description, and publish time.

How to monitor news mentions of my brand

Put your brand name in Search queries (queries) and schedule the Actor every few hours. New url values are new articles.

How to get Google News for a specific country or language

Set Location (geoLocation) and Interface language (locale), then add your Search queries (queries).

What does an error row mean?

It marks an input that failed after retries. errorCode is short (blocked, empty_result, not_available, http_404, or invalid_... for a bad ID or URL) and errorMessage says what to do. Remove error rows with a filter on type.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes. Create a task with your input in Apify Console, then add a schedule (for example every day at 8:00).

Is it legal to collect this data?

The Actor reads public pages that anyone can open without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data, including copyright, personal data rules such as GDPR, and the site's terms. If you are not sure, ask a lawyer.

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